Lynn B. Edelman

Anthony Sherr was destined to be the president of Green Valley Country Club. You might even say that it is in his gene pool. Sherr's parents, Linda and Ron Sherr, have been members of the Lafayette Hill club since 1964. The Blue Bell attorney recalls accompanying his father to his first Green Valley Federation Day dinner at the age of...

Across Pennsylvania, students are saying goodbye to their teachers and classmates during these final days of the school calendar. However, the promise of "See you in September" may be an empty one for some of the 44,000 children who currently attend private or parochial schools. These students receive scholarship assistance from the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program. But EITC is...

Robert A. Zuritsky, member of the executive committee of JFRE, Federation's affinity group for men and women in the real estate industry, is thrilled by the selection of the National Museum of American Jewish History as the site of its inaugural JFRE Fund event on Wednesday, June 9. "It will be exciting to hold our event in this new world-class...

Julie Ufberg of Elkins Park describes the 2009 Israel Independence Day celebration at Penn's Landing as "the luckiest day in my life." Ufberg was the grand-prize winner of two round-trip tickets to Israel, provided by El Al Israel Airlines, a platinum sponsor of the free community festival, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Ufberg will present the winning...

The Armon family of Elkins Park participated in Federation's Mitzvah Mania effort last November, sorting and boxing food collected for the Mitzvah Food Project at the SHARE food program warehouse in North Philadelphia. Wendy Armon recalls that her then 6-year-old son, Spencer, had a ball. He even told her that he wants to do it again for his seventh birthday...

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Lynn serves as director of public and corporate communications for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

Media relations is one of her chief responsibilities and greatest loves. Each week, she is responsible for developing feature stories for the Federation section profiling initiatives that have impacted the lives of Jews here, in Israel and in the former Soviet Union.

She also writes about the men and women who volunteer their time, talent and resources to ensure that Federation is able to raise the funds it needs to make a difference.